A former bodyguard has told how a crazed fan tried to kill INXS singer Michael Hutchence with a letter bomb. Hutchence shrugged off the attack, saying “our aim is to entertain people” and insisting the 1993 tour must go on. The “clumsy package” was sent to the Australian pop star at a German hotel where the band were staying during their Get Out Of My House World Tour. Jeff Pope, a former policeman who worked with INXS for a decade, made the revelations before the Australian premiere tonight of a TV movie about the band called Never Tear Us Apart. The bodyguard took delivery of the parcel, became suspicious about its contents and called the police. Hutchence was dating British TV presenter Paula Yates when he died in a Sydney hotel room in 1997 at the age of 37. I told him what had happened and we decided we didn’t want it to become a issue, something that was going to grab everybody’s attention.